Remember, the r75 has a attenuator for the am broadcast band.  I understand 
there is a mod to remove it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 7:25 PM
Subject: Update on Icom 7000


> It has been a year since I bought the Icom 7000 and although there are 
> loads
> of features I haven't learned yet, largely because I don't need access to
> them, I have learned all the basics but that isn't the focus of this
> message.  It is the short wave and A M and FM capability of the radio I 
> want
> to talk about this time.  I've been using the R7 vertical on my roof for
> nearly a year with the radio but after getting the G5RV up a couple of
> months ago, it has improved, as was expected, my FM, and especially the A 
> M
> broadcast band, and short wave frequencies, dramatically.  When I turn the
> radio on in the morning, I never turn it off until I go to bed at night
> because, over my Icom R75 receiver, and my sony 20 10, it has become my
> favorite broadcast receiver.  I have been an avid A M broadcast band
> listener since I was a kid and this radio takes the cake hands down.  We
> have two stations in Denver on 630 and 71 KHz which never created any
> problem listening to a 20 over S9 station on 650 KHz out of Cheyenne 
> Wyoming
> until, dad gummit, the two stations mentioned put on those dumb digital
> signals.  Between those two digital signals, they completely blocked out
> everything in between 630 and 710 and this was even true with my Icom R75
> receiver.  The station in Cheyenne simply was no longer able to be copied
> due to these two local stations digital signals.  This includes stations 
> 50
> miles north in Fort Collins Colorado on 700 and a station on 640 in 
> Colorado
> Springs Colorado which is 65 miles south and over a tall ridge that 
> normally
> blocks most southern Colorado signals even on 2 meters.  .  By the way,
> Cheyenne is 100 miles, or a little more, about 110 I guess, north of 
> Denver.
> Well, I can now hear 650 20 over S9 again with the Icom 7000 and there 
> isn't
> even a hit of those digital signals coming through.  Using the G5RV, I
> likewise am now able to hear weaker stations 50 to 100 miles away that 
> even
> my R75 receiver couldn't copy with a 100 foot long wire.  This include the
> 700 and 640 stations just mentioned which aren't very strong at all.  So, 
> in
> short, I am delighted with the receiver capability of the IC 7000, to say
> the least.
>
> Phil.
> [log in to unmask]
>